What does bravado mean?
Bravado means A swaggering show of defiance or courage..
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/bɹɑˈvɑdoʊ/ · noun
A swaggering show of defiance or courage..
The angry customer stood in the middle of the showroom and voiced his complaints with loud bravado.
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For a bravado he had the organ taken down and conveyed to his father's house, where he had it put up in the chamber where it now stands. It was also for a bravado that he played on it every day. But, by−and−by, the amount of time which he spent at it daily began to increase rapidly.
Rokoff assumed a truculent air, attempting by bravado to show how little he feared Tarzan’s threats.
Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.
The rise of SOS devices – satellite-synched gadgets that send a signal to rescue agencies when activated – give people bravado, Estrada says. “A lot of people carry these SOS devices and they think they can get into any trouble and they can get help,” he says, adding that he has seen more requests for assistance recently.
No doubt there is fear despite the bravado, but there is also no significant loss of Ukrainian military cohesion.
Behind the display of bravado, Trump must surely have sensed that his approach to foreign policy was catching up with him.
Use bravado when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bravado means A swaggering show of defiance or courage..
Common synonyms include bluster.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The angry customer stood in the middle of the showroom and voiced his complaints with loud bravado.
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